Neptune's Needle

206 miles long. Surface area of 23000 sq. miles. Linked to Lake Erie to south; Michigan and Superior to north and west.

Second largest (after Superior) of Great Lakes by surface, third largest (after Superior and Michigan) by volume (850 cubic miles) and largest by shoreline. The 5th largest lake in the world.. Many Canadians and Americans own cottages on the shallow, sandy beaches of Huron and along the rocky shores of Georgian Bay. The Saginaw River basin is intensively farmed and contains the Flint and Saginaw-Bay City metropolitan areas. Saginaw Bay, like Green Bay, contains a very productive fishery. Linked to Lake Michigan by Mackinac Straits at its northwestern end, and to Lake Erie by way of Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River at its southeastern end.

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Peter Richards